If leaving from either of these two airports get there a good 5 hours early, pack little in hand luggage and don't expect to see your luggage for a week!

5 December 2017 How do you like this? This is why your Lufthansa flight has been delayed or cancelled. Pilot's succumb to political pressure so you have to suffer. DW See Frankfurt Airport strike page

German Airline Lufthansa will take control of Brussels airline September 2016

Hallelujah!

Update:-Wednesday, March 15, 2017 German airline pilot’s for Lufthansa have made a deal with management. Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and low cost pilot’s for Germanwings will get over May 2012 - June 2022 11.4% pay raise. Pilot union accept gradual increase in retirement age.

Good news

Update:-11 October, 2017 Deal has been struck with pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) Hallelujah. Agreement is good till 2022. Touchy issue over pilot retirement age and pension benefits, new highers is now off the table. Airline also benefits from Ryanair debacle, Air Berlin bankruptcy and low cost jet fuel. Pilot's are happy not sure about baggage handlers or flight attendants.

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Berlin Airport Strikes?

Germany

What's going on?

Berlin Tegel

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Air Berlin and Lufthansa

16 May 2017 For what seems like days Air Berlin flights from Tegel have been delayed. It’s not just a few it’s in the hundreds.

Update:-Monday evening 20 March 2017 Numerous delays out of Berlin Tegel today. Tomorrow so far no flights have been cancelled or delayed. Call your airline to get updates. Flights to and from Italy will be back to normal tomorrow after Italian air traffic control went on strike today.

Update:-Update:-Saturday 18 March 2017 Berlin Airport workers union and management will be in negotiations on Monday.

Update:-Tuesday 14 March 2017 Yesterday 460 departures got chopped at Berlin Tegel Airport, Schoenefeld 143. Union behind strike action ver.di likely not to announce future strikes in advance blaming strike-breakers from yesterday. Ryanair had brought in own ground workers. Union did however state no further strikes before the end of the weekend.

This leaves everyone wondering about travel on Monday the 20th.

Update:-13 March 2017 Strike has been extended till Wednesday 5am. Just great.

Update:-13 March 2017 Berlin baggage handlers back on strike today, 25 hour strike. Monday 4am till 5am Tuesday. Union and management a mile apart on any agreement soon. As usual you know what to do. No luggage, get to airport early, call airport to see if you are leaving, although this maybe unreliable.

Update:-Friday 3 March 2017 Union workers vote overwhelmingly for strike action. Verdi union meeting is to take place on the 7th when more information will be released. Worlds largest tourist expo in Berlin starts the 8th, 180,000 visitors. It’s getting more and more likely that your flight could be cancelled next week to Berlin’s Tegel or Schonefeld Airport.

Temporary workers can’t be used by law. Air Berlin expected to be hit hard.

Ballot results due in this Friday, strike could start Saturday 4th March. Perhaps you need to know General Italian transportation strike, Finnish aviation unions and Air France strike action see www.easytravelreport.com

Update:-Saturday, February 11, 2017 Lufthansa pilots’ will decide next week 15 February, 2017whether to take recommendations proposed by mediator.

Update:-31 January 2017 Arbitration agreement ends with no agreement. Next conciliation by 10 February 2017. After that date, if no agreement made, parties will talk internally to figure out next move.

Update:-January 25, 2017 Talks on going, if no agreement made expect strike action perhaps in March.

12 January 2017 Lufthansa to take over Air Berlin.

Lufthansa Pilot Strike

Update:-Thousands of passengers can now relax and enjoy new year.

Friday 16 December, 2016 Pilot union and management agree to complete the conciliation process by the end of January. No strikes in January.

Update:-Sunday December 11, 2015 Pilot union will continue talks with management next week and and rule out strikes on the run up to Christmas. No strikes while talks are on going.

Update:-Sunday, December 4, 2016 This week-end has gone smoothly. Monday and Tuesday looking good. Talks have been positive. No industrial action is

Pilot union gets a boost, backing from Bogota, IFALPA Professional and Government Affairs Committee. If flying to and from Bogota I’d be nervous IFALPA More foreign pilots support Cockpit union French and Turkish.

Update:-Friday November 25, 2016 No strike is planned for Sunday. Pilot’s will continue with strike action next week and you will be given the customary 24 hour notice.

Update:-Thursday November 24 Lufthansa strike extended again for this Saturday between 00:01 to 23:59 hrs. All long hauls which leave Germany will be effected this time.

Jörg Handwerg, a member of the pilot union will be available to talk to you Hall A, Terminal 1 at Frankfurt airport.

Update:-Thursday November 24 Lufthansa strike extended again for this Saturday between 00:01 to 23:59 hrs. All long hauls which leave Germany will be effected this time. If you are in Frankfurt airport tomorrow, Friday you can meet with a pilot union rep Hall A, Terminal 1, 10am. Be nice.

Update:-Wednesday November 23, Pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit announce strike for this Friday the 25th. Again 00:01 - 23:59hrs. This time only the short-hauls will be involved from Germany.

Update:-November 22, 2016 First attempt failed by Lufthansa management today in court. More talks on this evening were also a failure. Pilot's will also strike Thursday 00:01- 23:59, flights cancelled the same as Wednesday long-hauls and domestic short- hauls.

Update:-Tuesday November 22, 2016 Fingers crossed, Lufthansa lawyers are working for you, in court trying to get the strike deemed illegal. Several hundred flights cancelled. Lufthansa has a notice up. Should know something in the next three hours...

Call them Lufthansa Just in time for U.S passengers going home for national Thanksgiving holiday.

14 November 2016 Lufthansa, negotiations break down with management. Pilots will give 24 hours notice before any strike action announced.

Anythings possible, first it might be long-hauls, Frankfurt might be left unaffected for the first round of strike action, perhaps it will be short and medium hauls. Get your plan B ready. You could be funneled to any one of the subsidiaries Germanwings, Eurowings, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International, Brussels Airlines.

If strike is extended expect hotel rooms and car rentals to be in short supply.

German railway might add extra trains. Don't forget knock-on effects.

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November Eurowings negotiations still not over, issues not fixed with flight attendants.

Sunday 30 October 2016 Meetings were fruitless today, no deal made. Consider yourself lucky if you get by Monday and Tuesday without industrial action. Some districts in Germany have a public holiday tomorrow.

Saturday 6 August 2016 Talks going well and have been extended into next week.

Lufthansa pilot union and management extend talks till 5 August 2016

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Flight attendant union

Friday 26 August 2016 Lufthansa cabin crew will have 1% raise October 2016 and 2% raise January 1, 2018. Retirement pension reconfigured and no flight attendants will be fired if company has to reduce workforce till after 2021.

UFO accept three year contract 5 July . Members will vote on this August 10, 2010.

Are you coming from a non EU country? Don’t get stuck in German international arrivals terminal, have a German visa so you can stay in a hotel instead of a cot in the terminal.

Lastly Belgium air traffic control are still playing up - controllers calling in sick. Charleroi and Brussels airport. Greece new strikes on the horizon for this and other strikes that will annoy you to no end www.easytravelreport.com

Negotiations with flight attendants union and pilot union are going nowhere. I'd be worrying if I had a booking with Lufthansa over the Christmas and New Year season.

Change to another airline, incur any penalties. You just don't want to deal with this stress over the holiday's. Whatever you do, don't choose Air France or Portuguese national airline TAP is prone to strike action over the holidays. Airline is under new management.

28 November 2015 Lufthansa Airlines reaches deal with 33,000 ground workers trade union Verdi. One off payment of 2,250 euros and salary increase of 2.2 percent January 1, 2016 and another 2.2 percent at the start of 2017.

Ufo flight attendant union also has a notice up. "Union would like to refrain from strikes on 1 Advent weekend in December"

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17 November 2015 Lufthansa sells it's 13% stake in Luxair back to Luxembourg. All's quiet with the flight attendants and pilot's this week, so far...

Old strike action for 2015

Lufthansa Flight Attendants Strike

Three hours notice is all they have to give. By that time you have already left home and coming through security!

As a precaution Lufthansa has booked some 2,500 hotel rooms in Frankfurt.

Thursday 12 November 2015 Lufthansa two legal battles fail to get strike stopped. 100,000 passengers affected today. If it makes you feel any better, embarrassed CEO Carsten Spohr, had to fly Wednesday to Berlin on competitor Air Berlin.

Tuesday 10 November 2015 UFO Union step up strike action, painful. Flight attendants will strike from 4am Wednesday till Friday midnight, all flights will be grounded. Lufthansa management working frantically to get strike deemed illegal. New offer expected this afternoon.

Lufthansa say..

Monday 9 November 2015, Effected flights tomorrow will be long-haul’s to Munich, Frankfurt. Dusseldorf long-hauls and domestic flights to be hit. Talks today were fruitless.

Sunday 8 November 2015 Strike details are out for tomorrow. All day walkout at Frankfurt and Dusseldorf Airports from 4:30am to 11pm and Munich your time has come 4:30am to midnight. Lufthansa management to make an "announcement" 5pm Monday.

If you are flying to Australia with Lufthansa be ready for an Australian Border Force strike on Monday.

Friday 6 November Here we have a list of cancelled flights

Flight attendant union announced today strike will take place between the hours of 2pm and 11pm (local time) today. Flights to and from Frankfurt and Dusseldorf only will be involved.

Flights to Munich will not be affected. Lufthansa website states 290 flights will be cancelled.

Saturday the 7th November flight attendants will strike from 6am to 11pm and will involve domestic and European flights and long-haul fliers. Again flights to and from Frankfurt and Dusseldorf will only be involved see UFO Still, that's 10,000 displaced passengers. You can of course change your flight for free with Lufthansa.

Sunday no strike action to take place.

At present Lufthansa is the only European airline on strike. British Airways, Air France, Iberia all employees are so called happy.

Let's hope flight attendants get a big blow back from this and change this obnoxious late notifications or Lufthansa lawyers get the strike deemed illegal.

Thursday 5 November Strike will not start till 13:00 GMT tomorrow. More information to be announced Friday morning. All we know is that strike will last eight days and that Eurowings, Germanwings, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa CityLine and Swiss will not be affected.

Wednesday, 9 September 2015 Higher court deems strike illegal. Pilots must go back to work immediately.

It will take several hours before flights get back to normal. Pilot's will be in no hurry.

Tuesday Update:-Judge deems strike is legal.

Tuesday September 8, 2015 Lufthansa management, working for you. in court trying to get strikes deemed illegal.

Another update for today, Monday 7 September, 2015 This time it effects Wednesday's flights, 9 September 2015. The 24 hour strike will involve short hauls and medium hauls leaving from Germany only.

Strike starts midnight Tuesday.

Update:-Monday 7 September 2015 Lufthansa pilots will strike tomorrow, Tuesday September 8, 2015. Strike will start tomorrow 8am and go on till midnight. Lufthansa Airlines has a notice up for you. Call them, your flight will be delayed, canceled or brought forward or it may mess with your connections.

Strike involves Lufthansa long-hauls FROM Germany ONLY and cargo flights. Check back with us as you know they will up the strike action.

You might need to know:-Italian air traffic control strike is planned for the 22nd, Brussels taxi strike and Spanish baggage handlers are causing all kinds of problems

Foreign trains ICE, TGV, Eurostar, Eurocity and Austrian Railways all to be hit. Then you have the knock on effect to deal with.

22 April, 2015 One of our viewers needs proof his Lufthansa flight was cancelled back in March. Hitting brick wall with Lufthansa. Anyone got any suggestions?

Serious delays for passengers regarding German rail strike this week. Check your plans from and to your German airport.

7 April, 2015 Lufthansa flights to and from and over France will be cancelled, delayed or brought forward in the month of April and May due to French air traffic control strikes

1 April, 2015 Passengers asking us if pilot's will strike over Easter? Lufthansa airline workers are in mourning. Going out on a limb here, it's highly unlikely any strike will happen for several months. All parties have to re-group after the devastating heart breaking recent incident. We have not come across any news articles stating pilots will strike. Here's the link to Cockpit pilot union site

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30 March 2015 Are you flying to Beirut Lebanon Airport tomorrow? Beirut air traffic controllers will hold a "sit in" starting at 1pm.. Other strikes going on check our front page

You might need to know Italian air traffic control strike is planned for Friday 20 March and a Belgian general strike is planned April 22, 2015.

​Update:-Thursday 19 March, 2015 Soldier on Lufthansa passengers. Pilots announce new strike for Saturday, again 00.01 - 23:59, likely to continue Sunday. This time it will be long - haul and cargo's turn again. Eurowings Germanwings not affected - yet.. You can feel it coming, hairs on the back of your neck standing up?

Update:-Wednesday evening 18 March - Unfortunately another strike has been added.

Lufthansa European and domestic flights.

Friday the 20th - hours 00.01 - 23:59

As per recents strike actions will not involve Eurowings and Germanwings.

Week-end passengers must be getting nervous.. Double whammy with the Italian air traffic control strike going on Friday.

​Here is Cockpit press release

Lufthansa Update:-Tuesday 17 March, 2015 Strike as expected has been extended to Thursday. Again 24 hours long and it will hit the long-hauls and cargo flights. Again Germanwings and Eurowings will not be affected.

Sunday 8 February, 2015 Tomorrow will (9 February, Monday) see a 24 hour strike by airport security workers at Hamburg, Hannover and Stuttgart airports. Flights are going to be delayed, cancelled or brought forward. Call your airline. Domestic, International flights will be involved. Lufthansa will take the brunt of it.

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Update:- On Lufthansa 6 February, 2015 Lufthansa management state more cuts for workers. Details to be released February 19th. No pilots to be laid off.

German Airport Security Strike

Update:-Deal has been offered, union members will vote on whether to take it or not. Results due in Friday the 13th, February.

​You should also know that Lufthansa pilot's and flight attendants are still not happy going into 2015. Choose another airline. German airport security issue still not resolved.

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Wednesday, 28 January, 2015. Yes it's true German airport security strike again this week. Strike will last all day tomorrow, Thursday, 29 January, 2015. Call your airline for instructions. Strike is based out of Colonge/Bonn Strikes and Dusseldorf Airport strikes Follow along with us for updates. Previous strikes this week have caused minimal delays.

​​May 5, 2015 Chief financial operator Simone Menne states "Lufthansa has an urgent need to overhaul the way the German airline group provides retirement benefits to it's workers. Pension burdens are putting considerable pressure on our equity"

We read this as. Do not book a trip with this airline for the next four years or more. Workers have to get the heave ho and you will pay.

The object of this page is to collect information on Lufthansa airlines see below. Such as staffing issues, pilots, go slow, routes, layoffs, safety concerns, financial health, on time record. Will they strike or go bankrupt after I've bought my ticket and leave me stranded at the airport? In other words is this airline reliable? Lufthansa second largest airline in Europe and when they strike it causes massive disruptions in delays and cancellations across the country, Europe and internationally. Lufthansa is based out Frankfurt, Europe's third biggest airport. If Lufthansa Airlines pilot ever strike. Naturally airlines hub at Frankfurt Airport takes the brunt of the industrial action.